Gun Nuts

I really like a good plastic holster for competition and OWB carry. But for IWB carry? Not so much. If the holster is going inside my waistband, leather is better. Now, when we’re talking about leather holsters, I’m not talking about cheap, floppy 25 dollar leather holsters. If you’re going to use a leather holster for IWB, it needs to be well made from quality leather by a reputable company. Also, a lot of the points in this article don’t apply if you’re carrying a flat gun, because it has fewer protuberances than a spinny-middle gun.

I’m not going to lie, this video made me kind of like the CSGV. They were at least able to laugh at themselves and the tweets, and in so doing made the people doing the tweeting look like a bunch of lunatics. Way to win hearts and minds, our side. With apologies to Bob Owens, who is not a lunatic.

I'd like to thank @belkin tech support for hanging up on me twice. I had to fix it myself by buying a @Linksys router to replace the belkin

— Caleb Giddings (@radicaleb) October 7, 2014

Wow what a terrible movie that was. I have to confess, I was somewhat interested in the fictional universe presented by the backstory of The Purge, set in a future America where one night a year, all crime is legal. This usually centers around murdering folk, and it’s generally suggested that the people usually targeted for murder are lower class/poor folk. Get rid of those undesirables, and whatnot. Anyway the movie is total garbage, and if you want to see everything wrong with The Purge, check out CinemaSins.

I get accused of being a gun snob pretty frequently. In order to create a fair test, I decided to buy, with actual cash money, a Taurus 82 revolver. This is about as close to the concept of “revolver, blue 6-shot” as you can get without being the preferable S&W Model 10; but what I wanted to do was really explain to shooters why if you’re looking for a defensive wheelgun, your search should proceed alphabetically, and never go further than the “S” section.

Handguns are, by a wide margin, the most difficult firearms to shoot accurately due in part to their relatively small size and the inability to stabilize them against larger structures of the body. They become more difficult to shoot as they get smaller and the trigger pull gets heavier. The typical J frame has a trigger pull that is several times the weight of the revolver itself and is usually carried with a very small “boot” style grip. This translates to the application of comparatively enormous levels of torque on a handgun with very little room for a grip that will resist that torque.

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I lost my first unicorn (A Stock II) so I had to get another one.

It’s bad when anti-gunners demonize gun owners for the actions of a small, violent, criminal minority of people.

But it’s totally okay to demonize 2.4 million American Muslims for the actions of a small, violent criminal minority of Muslims.

I guarantee that Shelley Rae’s FNS is better than yours.

Jan Morgan, who I’d never heard of until this morning, apparently owns a gun range where she’s decided to ban all Muslims. I wish that some part of that sentence was a joke, but apparently this person decided to declare her range a “muslim free zone” and then post about it on her blog that no one reads.

How come whenever an anti-gun person asks us to “compromise” or “meet in the middle” what they actual mean is “just give up some more of your rights?” I’ll be honest, if someone wrote a well-researched universal background check bill (instead of the crap they’re trying to push) I’d support it, on the condition that bill also provide for nationwide concealed carry reciprocity (Shaneen Allen’s Law) and the removal of SBR, SBS, and suppressors from the NFA list. That would be an actual compromise.

Which is why it will never, ever happen.

Why we need the NRA more than ever.

People are always talking about “serious guns” versus “fun guns.” For example, my Beretta ARX160 is a “serious gun” so I have it set up with a rugged optic and back up iron sights, so when I have to fight ISIS fighters in the mean streets of Sioux Falls I’ll be ready. But my Troy Carbine is a “fun gun” because I just have a 2 by 7 Leupold optic on it and I use for games and hunting coyotes.

The Ruger SP101 is one of my favorite small frame revolvers, right up there with the all steel J-Frames I love. If you have a Ruger revolver, you owe it to yourself to get a Wilson Combat Spring Kit from Brownells for it. I have WC kits in all of my GP100s and my Security Sixes. They just make the guns better.

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One of the things that my continuing experiment with concealing a big handgun (Ruger GP100) has shown is that concealing the barrel is the easy part. Due to the way barrel lengths are measured, a 4 inch wheeliegun has just as much barrel to conceal as a 5 inch 1911. That’s not the hard part about concealment.

This is how I’m carrying right now. What do you think in this carry position is the hardest part to conceal? The barrel? Or the cylinder, frame, and stocks? It’s definitely the latter, because the barrel of any gun just sort of disappears down the holster if you’re using an IWB. So why then do we get these little guns with three inch barrels and full size grips marketed as “concealable?”

One of the key points of disagreement between pro-gunners and anti-gunners is on the concept of whether or not it is necessary, or even appropriate, for an “average” citizen to have ready access to a lethal weapon in case they are attacked. Anti-gunners often hold that the proper course of action when one is threatened by another is to call the police and let them deal with the problem. To the average person this might sound like a perfectly reasonable answer, but it really isn’t. The giant hole in the anti-gunner self defense plan is that even the best police response is going to be minutes out in a situation where seconds define the boundaries between life and death.

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